arctic Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Does anybody know of a RAW-converter that REALLY works with Linux? I think I tried all of them and am unsatisfied. Rawtherapee is unable to handle my 10-15 MB RAW images (Slow and unable to display the image), UFRaw and dcraw are able to load and display the images, but not really able to leave the colour settings as they should be (They are all messed up and no matter what I try, they cannot be corrected well), Lightzone refuses to run at all. Canons DPP works okay using Wine, but it has some graphical bugs and some instability problems here and there. I really need a reliable and working RAW-converter for my every-day work. I don't want to fire up my Win XP driven laptop all the time for processing my photos. Although I had absolutely zero problems with Linux and especially Mandriva during the past year, the RAW-support on Linux-Systems has still a long way to go. I can completely understand, why so many photographers don't use Linux: Working with RAWs is a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 (edited) Hi, Funny that, I was having the same problem yesterday. I've got a Nikon though and therefore am left with .nef . I tried Rawstudion, Ufraw and eventually settled with Digikam and the raw batch tool (dcraw I suppose). I tweaked a bit and had the result I wanted. I still have to work on the colours (mainly contrast) on the jpg using gimp. The process was quite fast, 61 shots In less than 10 mins (AMD 64 x2 5000+ black edition). http://osp.wikidot.com/raw-linux-software-comparison I found that as well: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Bibble-Labs-Bi...5aec662983acfb2 Not sure if it is for linux or not. I think you can try bibble for free : http://download.bibblelabs.com/ Hope you find what you want, let me know if you do, Stef Edited April 5, 2008 by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Hi, Me again... I've tried the Bibble lite rpm downloaded from their website and confirm it works very well on my .nef files. Great result and quite fast on my laptop (Eeepc asus only 900Mhz...) running cooker. A .nef of 5MB gave a tiff of 35 MB! I might try jpg... Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Currently downloading bibble. Maybe that one works... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 Yay! Bibble works! Thank you! You really saved my day. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 Great! Funny, I downloaded the lite version (rpm) and it doesn't say when it will expire. Is it a free version? Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 I was also wondering... it seems as if the Linux version is for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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